[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Doing God’s work through thuggery, I suppose...

[Alice in Wonderland]

Check this out. We’ve been told the authorities were looking for Dale Barlow, the sex offender from Colorado City. But were they ???

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Swinton was arrested on April 16, three days after Texas Rangers contacted Colorado Springs police about two telephone numbers from the Colorado Springs area they were investigating as part of the YFZ Ranch probe.

According to an arrest affidavit, Colorado Springs police told the Rangers that one of the numbers was associated with Swinton and that she has been known to make false reports of sexual abuse. The other number was later determined to be a cell phone belonging to a 31-year-old male named Courtney Swinton who lived in the same apartment complex as Rozita Swinton. Courtney Swinton’s telephone was allegedly used by a woman named Sarah Barlow to call a battered women’s shelter in Washington State between March 22 and April 8.

According to the affidavit, Barlow said she was 16, that she had an infant daughter named Claire and that she had a “reassigned husband” named Uncle Merrill. According to the document, Texas investigators believed that was a reference to Frederick Merrill Jessop, the head of the YFZ Ranch.

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Merrill is one of the men who has disappeared. His “Bishop’s Record” hasn’t been released.

http://cbs2chicago.com/national/flds.ranch.call.2.742542.html

[IIntense]

I've read that Texas authorities knew the origin of the phone calls by a supposed 16-year-old in that compound before they investigated the YFZ ranch..

What would prevent them from tracking phone calls?

Therefore, if they did have that information, they could not use that as a legitimate reason to enter and investigate this polygamous community.

I'm speaking only of the legalities here. I believe that something's rotten about these cults and, so far, I've heard of no state which is willing to do everything in its power to put an end to their unholy practices.

[metmom]

I have a real problem with religions that promise eternal sex with innumerable women as a reward for all kinds of deviant, abusive, cruel treatment of those under you (read: women and children) and those who disagree with you.

That’s no God of the Bible, no matter what they claim.